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Koala
By: Danielle Clode
Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention.
In vivid, descriptive prose, Clode embarks on a delightful and surprising journey through evolutionary biology, natural history, and ecology to understand where these enigmatic animals came... Read more
The Birds That Audubon Missed
By: Kenn Kaufman
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world.
Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with... Read more
Methuselah's Zoo
By: Steven N. Austad
Narrated by: Tristan Morris
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there... Read more
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Year of No Garbage
By: Eve O. Schaub
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all—for an entire year and, as it turns out, during a... Read more
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The Mushroom at the End of the World
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions,... Read more
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The Feather Thief
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more
Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... Read more
Sand Talk
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read more
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Celebrating Birds
By: Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon & Laura...
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.
Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international... Read more
Underland
By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land... Read more
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On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more
Fire Weather
By: John Vaillant
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce
“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David... Read more
Alfie and Me
By: Carl Safina
Narrated by: Carl Safina
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became a part of the family, joining a menagerie of dogs and... Read more
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1491
By: Charles C. Mann
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in... Read more
Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting... Read more
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Of Time and Turtles
By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants—turtles—and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery... Read more
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Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.Helen Macdonald... Read more
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The Sounds of Life
By: Karen Bakker
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Toren takes you on an amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds
The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow... Read more
A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention
By: Rebecca Schiller
Narrated by: Rebecca Schiller
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
It should have been Rebecca Schiller's dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward a life of open fields and sacks of corn, I brought a confused black hole of something pernicious but not yet... Read more
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All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**
"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." —The Houston Chronicle
A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.
All Creatures Great and... Read more
World of Wonders
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year
A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction
A Southern Book Prize Finalist
An NPR Best Book of 2020
An Esquire Best Book of 2020
A BookPage Best Book of 2020
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020
An Indie Next Pick, September 2019
A Publishers Weekly "Big Indie... Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more
The Poem Forest
By: Carrie Fountain
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"All his life, William Stanley searched for a wild place of his own. Growing up in the straightened-out city blocks of his childhood and finding some respite in summer trips to a cabin in the woods, he yearned for space, fragrant soil, tall trees, and the silence that surrounds them. In Hawaii, he learned of acres of land depleted from toxic... Read more
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The Unsettling of America
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. Init, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takesfarming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from... Read more
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